Several years ago, I wrote about an application for Windows users, called “Ninite,” (ninite.com). If you are getting a new computer for Christmas, birthday, whatever you need to use this application. It is currently available for both Windows and Linux computers. If you visit the Ninite, you can choose programs you want installed on your…
W3Schools.com, a great site for coding and statistical information, does a monthly poll on the main operating systems used today and the percentages of users taking advantage of each system. For July, 2012 it rolls out like this: Windows 7-53.8%, Vista-3.4%, Microsoft NT-1.2%, Windows XP-26.1%, Linux-4.9% and Mac-8.2%. It is obvious that Microsoft is currently…
Several weeks ago I mentioned a application when talking about Ubuntu called, VirtualBox. I had a couple of people writing asking if there was a program like VirtualBox they could use to run Ubuntu, Windows XP or another operating system on their Windows 7 computer. Guess what? There is and it is called, "VirtualBox", (virtualbox.org)…
I did not think we would be talking about Ubuntu for yet another week but here we are. I suppose this will be the last one but you folks are the drivers, I am just the tour guide. Keep those emails coming! Several readers have been reading about Ubuntu and doing some studying. Great job!…
In review, Ubuntu is a free Linux based operating system that you could use to replace Windows on your computer. I will hit a few more Ubuntu specialties today and move on next week. Since Ubuntu is free you would think that getting help about how to use things would be impossible. However, since there…
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